Improvement in lamp-burners



-H. J.WHIT.E.' Lamp-Chimney Holder.

- N0. 102,891. Patented May 10; 1870.

art-wt chitin,

HIRAM J. WHITE, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 102,897, datezl'May 10, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS.

The Schedule referred to in these' Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation.'

Figure 2 a top view, and

Figure 3 a transverse section of a burner provided with my saidinvention, which has particular reference .to the cone, or deflector andthe cliimney-supporter.

Figure 4 is a top view, and

Figure5 a side elevation of the (-himneysnpportcr separate from thecone, or deflector.

Figure 6 is'a side elevation of the tor. t t

The chimneyssupporter is represented at A, as ai fixed to thewick-tubeB, and the screw-cap C.

This latter sustains the wick-tube and the wick-ch vator shown at D.

The support-er A encompasses the cap 0, and is concavo-convcx, ordished, and formed with a neek,N, to receive the chimney.

This neck not only has a flange, a, for the chimney to rest on, but isconstructed with a rebate, 1), arranged at the top of the neck, andextending entirely about the supporter.

That part of the neck, N, which-is between the flange, (I, and therebate, 11, is perforated with aserics ot' vcrticalnnd horizontalsaw-slits, c and d, the vcrtical ones, or those at right angles with therebate, being extended through the base 0 and up to the neck f of therebate. Above the said rebate, and between it and the head 1 thesupporter is perforated with a series of tine holes, or, in other words,is fin'aniinous.

Every neck section h which extends down from the rebate, and isinsulated from the lip or flange a, is bent outward beyond the nextadjacent sections in manner as IOIHCSClltOd, in order that it mayconstitutea spring to receive and hold or steady a glass chimney, whencncmnpassing the supporter and resting on the lip a.

Two studs,"t 'i, projected from opposite sides of the neck of therebate,serve as guides for determining the correct position of the cone ordeflector, while being applied to the sup iiorter, such cone, ordeflector har-v ing two notches 7: It made in its base to receive suchstuds.

I nrthermore, the base part I of the cone, or doflector, formed inmanner as shown in the drawings, is intended to close and fit upon theneck of the rebate, and for this purpose is slitted vertically, atintervals as represented, in order that it may be sprung closely uponsuch neck.

The width of the base of the rebate, however, it

considerably greater than the thickness of the part, I

in order that the air may pass up through the slits 0 the base part ofthe rebate, and flow around the has of the cone or deflector, and passinto the clnmne when in the supporter.

The cone, or air-deflector, is furnished with twl handles or projectionsin in, arranged soas to pro ect from opposite parts of it, and near itsbase, in marine: as exhibited in the drawings.

These handles, or projections, greatly facilitate thi removal of thecone from the supporter, or their sep aration; for, by placingthe thumband fore-fingerot tln hand of a person on these handles, force may by applied to the deflector to good advantage by the hand whether for liftingthe deflector off the supporter o for putting it upon the neck of therebate.

The construction of the chimney-supporter A, n manner as described,renders i t peculiarly advanta geous, not only for holding andsustaining the chnnne and the cone or deflector, but for supplying airto tin wick. It also admits otthe supporter being cash; and cheaplyconstructed. D

I am aware of the chinitrey-supporter as shown 11 the United StatesPatent No. 74,403, to Mullally and, therefore, make no claim thereto, ithaving ase ries of thin springs extending around it with vertiea slitsand air-holes between them.

In my cliimney-supporter I have a series at sue. springs, each beingformed by making two vertlca slits and one horizontal slitin thesupporter, and bend ing outward the intermediate part so as to extend 1from the body of the supporter, and have air-passage: through such bodyand about the splin l urthermorc, each spring is separated from tln nextby an intervening part of the supporter, and eacl spring is insulatedfrom the flange (0 for supporting the chimney; whereas, in the supporterof Mullally the chimney is wholly supported by the sprin".

A. chhoney-supporter madeon my plan is'not onh much stronger than theother, but better in other re spects.

I therelbre claim myimyn-oved lampchimney sup porter N, as having itsspring it formed by vertica and horizontal air-passages or slits c d inthe body and arranged with reference to the rest of the bed; asspecified, and as provided with the supporting-flangt a, insulated fromthe springs, as

I also claim the cone, or deflector, as made with th slittcd base, thenotches 7;, and the handles m an, ar-

- anged on its opposite sides as represented.

HIRAM J. \VHITE.

Wi tnesscs:

R. H." Envy, J. R. Snow.

